To think you should receive the meal described on the menu

[TeaAndBrie]

Slightly light-hearted but also incredibly annoying!
we went for a roast dinner today, when it arrived there were no Yorkshire puddings and no stuffing (as per the menu). When i asked where these items were they went to check and came back to say you had run out.
no substitutes offered.
this just mars the whole experience but if you try and complain you’re instantly made to feel as though you’re making an issue out of something unnecessarily.
this is happening more and more often recently. Anyone else noticed this?

No Yorkies would ruin DH's year! They should def have said if they were missing key components of a meal! And offered extras of the other things (roasties!!!) to make up for it.

A roast without Yorkshire and stuffing is like fish and chips without chips.. well maybe not quite but I’d have complained about it anyway!

I recently ordered a steak baguette and they didn't add the caramilsed onions. To add insult to injury, they also added mayonnaise. No where on the description did mention mayonnaise. When I've ordered the meal previously, it was mayonnaise free. I hate mayonnaise. You'd be surprised how often it sneaks its way into things though 😡

That's shit, they're the best bits!

And no yorkies should be made a criminal offence

Please, people: Yorkies are dogs or chocolate bars. Yorkshire puddings should be said in full.

And i would have sent the meal back for being incomplete and requested something else.

Honestly I’d have wanted a refund! I can’t eat a lot of veg (medical condition) so without a Yorkshire pudding, a Sunday roast can be a pretty empty plate.

How do you run out of Yorkshire puddings? They're made out of eggs, milk and flour. Surely all restaurants have these ingredients?

Yanbu. It would ruin the meal for me.

They should be shut down for such atrocities!

Definitely should have been told beforehand that they’d run out. I wouldn’t have ordered without Yorkies or stuffing, best bits of a roast!

We were out at a fave restaurant of ours recently. Four of us, all ordering different meals, every time one of us said what we wanted we were told they didn’t have that on the menu tonight 🙄

They should have told you when you ordered

To me that suggests that they're not made by the chef on the day.

YANBU....how can they run out of these two things...I don't get it. Can't they go to the shop and buy more ingredients.

That's really disappointing! I had the opposite yesterday- very posh restaurant for special occasion, ordered caesar salad, which came full of anchovies. When I had to send it back they were very snooty because caesar 'always has anchovies'. I almost always check because I hate them, but they'd listed every other ingredient down to fine shaved parmesan and cracked black and pink peppercorns then I thought I was safe enough!

They should have made more or at least got some from a supermarket

Yes exactly @Cloudyz7 ! I think it's a poor show that the chef wouldn't whip up a quick batter and make proper ones.

We have just returned from a pizza chain this evening. They couldn't provide a lot of the options on the menu as they had no salad ingredients or fresh veg . Also service was so slow that we gave up before ordering any dessert. What we did get was nice but took over and hour to arrive and then absolutely ages passed before we could attract a waiter/waitress.

Did they not offer a discount, or free dessert or anything? I was out with friends Fri evening and they had run out of tarragon for the bearnaise sauce so knocked a tenner off the bill.

@eggsellentwork you realise the actual dressing on your salad was made from puréed anchovies, right?

Have they never heard of the 4th emergency service, Aunt Bessie?

I do indeed. I also love tomato ketchup, but am not terribly fussed on whole tomatoes (better than whole anchovies though!)

I'm clearly totally uncultured, and shouldn't be allowed out!

Agreed! A proper chef with a decently stocked kitchen ought to be able to rustle up Yorkshire puddings and probably also stuffing to order.

Would hack me off. Plus you should have been told when ordering. I would have asked for a partial refund.

Depends where is was..

if a cheap carvery, they should offer extra roasties

if a proper restaurant or gastro pub then they could bloody well make the yorkies, and either sausage or extra meat to make up for stuffing.

I’d have complained, nicely.